 pokkets says: Every particle has a frequency. There is an introduction, but more details on the page, to help understand how a wave can act like a particle I need a beer. Nope, I need a couple of beers  Actually, to me, it also expresses how a spiritual vibration might act as a person. That was really insightful Bear. Thanks for sharing this amazing clip! I love it. First performed in 1801 by Thomas Young, the two slit experiment can be performed, not only with photons, but with other atomic particles as well. There are some very strange aspects to this experiment. If you fire off single photons, or other particles, one at a time, you will still get the interference pattern, how does the photon know where to go, and what has gone before it? If you use a Heisenberg microscope to observe which slit the particle enters, there is no interference pattern, just two blobs. It's as if the particle knows it is being watched. This is the point at which the wave turns into a particle (is actualized), because someone is watching!! This was the first time... I think that the wave/photon theories cast light (!) on the nature of theory, They both work for different things. Classical physics still has its uses. Analagously, so does 'classical thinking' generally, while the new waves of consciousness, metaphorically 'quantum thinking', 'complexity thinking', 'alinear connectivisim' (aka schizophrenia) modulate our very way of perceiving the universe - and, most importantly, our ways of seeing ourselves. Don't forget that a theory, unlike an hypothesis, can be tested. Quantum Theory has passed every test thrown at it. Einstein spent half his life trying to break it, and failed. Quantum Theory is more strange, and more real than most people can comprehend. One of the founders of Quantum Theory, said that those who are not shocked by it, don't understand it. I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so absurd as it seemed to us in these atomic experiments? * Werner Heisenberg in Physics and Philosophy (1958) Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language. It is not surprising that our language should be incapable of describing the processes occurring within the atoms, for, as has been remarked, it was invented to describe the experiences of daily life, and these consist only of processes involving exceedingly large numbers of atoms. Furthermore, it is very difficult to modify our language so that it will be able to describe these atomic processes, for words can only describe things of which we can form mental pictures, and this ability, too, is a result of daily experience. Fortunately, mathematics is not subject to this limitat... Think it was Bertrand Russell who pointed out the leap in understanding that came when freed from thinking of an atom as a noun to an atom as a verb. Metaphor and linguistic framing, the constraints of syntax and grammar, the contingent understandings of cause-effect etc. are in a reciprocal flux with mathematical/empirical advances which shape and are shaped by the continuing interaction. |
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